The total RNA (1.0 μg/sample) was subjected to rRNA depletion by Ribo-Zero rRNA Removal (Human/Mouse/Rat) Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, United States). Strand-specific RNA libraries were prepared using TruSeq Stranded Total RNA Sample Preparation Kit (Illumina) without poly-A selection. All assays were performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions. RNA-seq was performed on the Illumina Nova6000 plate High Output Model (Illumina, San Diego, United States) (Hrdlickova et al., 2017 (link)), in a 2 × 150-bp paired-end configuration, with a total of more than 2,666 M reads per lane (at least 50 M reads per sample).
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